A Shocker, Randy Orton's Mysterious Ally Reveals Identity on WWE SmackDown

It was then that The American Nightmare made his way down to the ring, and he was all business. Rhodes and Orton immediately started fighting center ring, when Pat McAfee of all people snuck into the ring and dropped the WWE Champion with a punt below the belt.

Pat McAfee wants to save WWE by helping Randy Orton

The live audience was absolutely dumbfounded by what they had witnesses, and it's pretty safe to say that many others watching home were as well.

As Rhodes writhed in pain in the center of the ring, Orton took the opportunity to grab a steel chair, and he went to work on his WrestleMania opponent. As he began to inflict his special brand of punishment on the champ, Pat McAfee grabbed a microphone.

The former All-Pro NFL punter and current ESPN personality confirmed he was the man on the other end of the telephone, and he made mention of his recent Q&A comments that WWE had passed him by. During this WrestleMania season, however, McAfee said he realized that the business simply sucks now.

McAfee tore down Cody Rhodes as the representative of everything he hates about modern WWE, and said that Randy Orton was going to kill everything The American Nightmare had built since his return and save the industry he once loved.

This is an absolutely massive swerve two weeks out from the biggest show of the year. With 20 years of real, personal history between champion and challenger, the WWE creative team has chosen to insert their former color analyst into the heart of this rivalry. Time will tell if this gamble pays off.